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Definition
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- typically describing something as mistaken due to incorrect information or belief
- sometimes describing something as an intentional lie
- But when Ulysses, with fallacious arts, Had made impression in the people's hearts, And forg'd a treason in my patron's name (I speak of things too far divulg'd by fame), My kinsman fell.Book 2 (10% in)
- On others practice thy Ligurian arts; Thin stratagems and tricks of little hearts Are lost on me: nor shalt thou safe retire, With vaunting lies, to thy fallacious sire.Book 11 (80% in)
There are no more uses of "fallacious" in The Aeneid.
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